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Futhark by Example: A Hands-On Tour of the Parallel Array Language
Futhark's documentation team has assembled a graduated collection of commented example programs designed to introduce the parallel functional array language thr
Gruber: AI Is Infrastructure, Not Apple's Next Killer Product
John Gruber pushes back on Steven Levy's Wired piece arguing that Apple's incoming CEO must ship a defining AI product or watch agents obviate the iPhone. Grube
Hosting a website on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller over SLIP
A hobbyist project gets an AVR64DD32 microcontroller serving a webpage over the open internet. Ethernet was ruled out because even 10BASE-T's 20 Mbit/s Manchest
Local LLM inference on M5 MacBook Pro costs 3x more than OpenRouter
A cost breakdown of running Gemma 4 31B locally on a maxed-out M5 Max MacBook Pro shows hardware depreciation, not electricity, drives the economics. At $0.18/k
Malta becomes first nation to offer ChatGPT Plus to every citizen via OpenAI deal
OpenAI has struck a partnership with the Government of Malta to provide ChatGPT Plus access to the country's entire citizenry, marking the first national-scale
Meta pulls 1M-follower account after Kuwaiti government request
Meta reportedly removed a popular account with roughly one million followers following a takedown request from the Kuwaiti government, according to a post by jo
Mozilla pushes back on UK proposal to age-gate VPNs under Online Safety Act
Mozilla has formally objected to a UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology consultation that floats restricting young people's access to VPNs, a me
NVIDIA's SANA-WM: 2.6B open-source world model generates minute-long 720p video
NVIDIA Labs has released SANA-WM, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-source world model capable of generating coherent 720p video sequences up to a minute long. The c
Researcher claims Microsoft baked a BitLocker backdoor, ships PoC exploit
A security researcher is alleging that Microsoft quietly engineered a backdoor into BitLocker, the full-disk encryption feature shipped with Windows Pro and Ent
Stross's Accelerando: a free novel charting humanity's slide into the Singularity
Charles Stross's 2005 novel Accelerando, freely hosted on the author's site, traces three generations of the Macx family as accelerating technological change re
whichllm: CLI picks the best local LLM for your GPU using real benchmarks
whichllm is a command-line tool that auto-detects a machine's GPU, CPU, and RAM and ranks HuggingFace models that will actually run on it. Unlike size-based fit
WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
The World Health Organization has elevated the current Ebola outbreak spanning Congo and Uganda to a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, its highe